Thursday, 3 September 2026

AI confirms what I was sure of. I am five removes from King Charles II

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Using AI I confirmed that Harold Macmillan did. know Frederic Harrison. How wonderful AI is.


I met Harold Macmillan. Frederic Harrison went to his wedding. 

Harrison went up to Oxford in 1848 where he met Martin Routh, who was then still President of Magdalen College, despite having been born in 1755. 

When Routh was a little boy he met an old lady who, as a girl, saw King Charles II walking his spaniels in Magdalen Grove. 

I, who this morning read the news about Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, am just five removes from the King of England who hid in the royal oak tree with Henry Wilmot to avoid being found by the Parliamentarian soldiers below, following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. 

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